Posted on 09/12/2004 10:46:11 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
N Korea says it blew up mountain
North Korea has given an explanation for the huge blast last Thursday which prompted speculation that it was a part of a nuclear test.
The country's foreign minister, Paek Nam Sun, said the blast was the deliberate demolition of a mountain as part of a hydro-electric project.
His remarks were in response to a call for information by the visiting UK Foreign Office minister, Bill Rammell.
North Korea had said absolutely nothing about the incident until now.
kudzu ?
I hope we used his bunker for our demonstration project.
Oh Juanita, You call_my_name......
Hey, why are you doubting mountain demolition in the middle of the night? ;~ )
LoL.
It's exactly the type of explanation the Iranian regime would give. I think Jung-Il and mullahs have been hanging out together too much.
Emporer Kim: "Subcommander Tao, I said to GO UP the mountain and get me some nice kimchee, NOT BLOW UP the mountain! Idiot!"
Yeah, mullahs are spending too much time with Kim Jong-il. Maybe in time, they will also wear platform shoes and sport his bad hair, too.:)
LOL. No doubt uses the aerosal....
Actually, Powell stated that it was non-nuclear yesterday or so... it is easy to ascertain absolutely with radiation measurements, and that will come out.
The power of that was apparently on the close order of a thousand tons of TNT which is certainly well within range of an ammo dump blowing up. (or if NK wanted to "calibrate" for a future nuclear test - but that's a bit silly in this day in age since that data is easily available already)
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I have it on good authority that North Korea had established it's largest holding area for political dissidents on that mountain. Due to overcrowded conditions, they were just clearing out the camp to make way for new inmates.
The Russians may have a good reason for having something go boom in NK.
"The Russian official did not elaborate, leaving it unclear whether the alleged Korean terrorist hailed from North or South Korea, or was possibly a Korean-Russian. "
Source: Seoul Trying to Confirm Report on Koreans Involved in Russian School Attack - September 7, 2004
Volatile Missile plant? What Volatile Missile plant! I don got to show you no volatile Missile plant...
Seriously, no quarry blast makes a mushroom cloud, as the explosives are buried before they go off. The goal is to break up rock, not make a crater. I would love to see some before and after sat pics to see what was there, once...
hehe
et they didn't file their Enviromental Impact Statement!
There they go again, making a mole hill out of a mountain!
N.K. Explosion (audio)
http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=EC30292F-DA11-4326-B60380AA03AF2E8E&title=North%20Korea%20Says%20Blast%20Part%20of%20Construction%20Project
Thats something I find very interesting. You just have to believe we have some unbelievable stuff and you dont hear anything about it.
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